Bio: Dinwiddie Brazier Phillips, of Orange County, Virginia
Source: Collections of the Virginia Historical Society: New Series, Volume VI, by Virginia Historical Society, 1887;
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DINWIDDIE BRAZIER PHILLIPS
At one time of the United States Navy, and subsequently of the Confederate States Navy, and Surgeon of the Virginia.
The paternal ancestor in Virginia of Surgeon Dinwiddie Brazier Phillips waas Colonel William Phillips, of the Revolutionary army, son of James Phillips, of Wales, who settled in Stafford county early in the eighteenth century and married Miss Griffin. Colonel William Phillips married Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Garard Fowke and Elizabeth, daughter of John Dinwiddie (brother of Robert Dinwiddie, Governor of Virginia, 1751-1758) and his wife, Sempha Rose Enfield Mason, grand-daughter of Colonel George Mason, M.P. temp. Charles I, and great grand-daughter of Colonel Gerard Fowke (sixth son of Roger and Mary Fowke, of Gunston Hall, Staffordshire, England), Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to Charles I, who, with his cousin, Colonel George Mason (the proprietor of "Gunston Hall," Virginia, and the author of the Virginia Bill of Rights), both colonels in the Royalist army, came to Virginia about 1650, the first becoming a merchant and acquiring several valuable tracts, particularly one of 1,400 acres at Paspatany, on the Potomac river, then in that portion of Westmoreland which is now King George county.
Colonel William Fowke, son of Colonel William and Elizabeth (Fowke) Phillips, married Edith Harrison Ashmore, daughter of John and Sarah Harrison (daughter of Z. Brazier, son of Robert Brazier, of Isle of Thanet, Kent county, England, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Chandler and _______ (Harrison) Fowke, grandson of the emigrant) Cannon.
Of their issue was Dinwiddie Brazier Phillips, M.D., who entered the United States Navy as assistant surgeon in 1847, and the Virginia and Confederate States navies in 1861; surgeon of the Virginia or Merrimac, during her entire existence, besides acting in the first year of the war between the states as medical director of the Wise Legion and commanding the post of the White Sulphur Springs as Major in that Legion; married Minnie F., daughter of William Walden, of Rappanhannock county, Virginia, and has issue: i. William Ravenal Fowke; ii. Fannie Mason, iii. Minnie Walden. He now resides near Madison Run station, Orange County, Virginia.-See Dinwiddle Genealogy, Dinwiddie Papers, Vol. I, xxi, et seq. (Virginia Historical Collections, Vol. III).